<sigh> Bob was cheating on Eve with Alice, so of course she HAD to crack the encryption. Bob is such a cheating bastard.

Was that so wrong?

Other than it isn't funny?

Alice, Bob, and Eve are all standard names used to describe cryptography problems. In every security article or security textbook Eve is always portrayed as an evildoer trying to break Alice and Bob's communications.

<sigh> Bob was cheating on Eve with Alice, so of course she HAD to crack the encryption. Bob is such a cheating bastard.

Was that so wrong?

Other than it isn't funny?

Alice, Bob, and Eve are all standard names used to describe cryptography problems. In every security article or security textbook Eve is always portrayed as an evildoer trying to break Alice and Bob's communications.

Quote from: coopasonic on December 30, 2009, 02:45:44 PM

Quote from: Default on December 30, 2009, 02:40:12 PM

I <3 this one.

I'm not 100% sure, but this may be the first xkcd that has me at a total loss.

Spoiler for explanation from xkcd forums:

As a quick explanation, in discussions of cryptography and encodings, etc, Bob is the standard name of the party sending information, and Alice is the standard name of the party receiving information. If there's a passive listener on the line, eavesdropping on the call, we call her Eve (get it, Eavesdropping = Eve?). If Eve fiddles with the information, she's called Mallory, and if there's a trusted third party, he's called Trent. We just use names instead of letters or roles because it's easier to say "Bob's message is read by Eve" than "The outgoing message sent by the first party was intercepted and read by a passive third party listener who's not trusted".

<sigh> Bob was cheating on Eve with Alice, so of course she HAD to crack the encryption. Bob is such a cheating bastard.

Was that so wrong?

Other than it isn't funny?

Alice, Bob, and Eve are all standard names used to describe cryptography problems. In every security article or security textbook Eve is always portrayed as an evildoer trying to break Alice and Bob's communications.

Quote from: coopasonic on December 30, 2009, 02:45:44 PM

Quote from: Default on December 30, 2009, 02:40:12 PM

I <3 this one.

I'm not 100% sure, but this may be the first xkcd that has me at a total loss.

Spoiler for explanation from xkcd forums:

As a quick explanation, in discussions of cryptography and encodings, etc, Bob is the standard name of the party sending information, and Alice is the standard name of the party receiving information. If there's a passive listener on the line, eavesdropping on the call, we call her Eve (get it, Eavesdropping = Eve?). If Eve fiddles with the information, she's called Mallory, and if there's a trusted third party, he's called Trent. We just use names instead of letters or roles because it's easier to say "Bob's message is read by Eve" than "The outgoing message sent by the first party was intercepted and read by a passive third party listener who's not trusted".

<sigh> Bob was cheating on Eve with Alice, so of course she HAD to crack the encryption. Bob is such a cheating bastard.

Was that so wrong?

Other than it isn't funny?

Alice, Bob, and Eve are all standard names used to describe cryptography problems. In every security article or security textbook Eve is always portrayed as an evildoer trying to break Alice and Bob's communications.

I get the terminology, I still don't think that one was funny. Clever yes, funny no. Its like any industry specific humor in that it is only really funny to those in the know.

"OK, I don't like to gear my material to the audience, but I'd like to make an exception, because I was told that there is a convention of plumbers in town this week—I understand about 30 of them came down to the show tonight—so before I came out, I worked up a joke especially for the plumbers. Those of you who aren't plumbers probably won't get this and won't think it's funny, but I think those of you who are plumbers will really enjoy this. This lawn supervisor was out on a sprinkler maintenance job, and he started working on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom seven-inch gangly wrench. Just then this little apprentice leaned over and said, 'You can't work on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom seven-inch wrench.' Well, this infuriated the supervisor, so he went and got Volume 14 of the Kinsley manual, and he reads to him and says, 'The Langstrom seven-inch wrench can be used with the Findlay sprocket.' Just then the little apprentice leaned over and says, 'It says sprocket, not socket!' [Worried pause.] "Were these plumbers supposed to be here this show?"

Mr. Rogers projected an air of genuine, unwavering, almost saintly pure-hearted decency. But when you look deeper, at the person behind the image...that's exactly what you find there too. He's exactly what he appears to be.

sudo basically means "do as a super user" in Unix/Linux. Super users can do everything and anything on a Unix/Linux system. Kind of like every user in Windows So it would be a command that could not be resisted. You put it before the command like "sudo del file"

It has actually been used before by XKCD in a way that pretty much explains what it means to use the awesome power of "sudo"

sudo basically means "do as a super user" in Unix/Linux. Super users can do everything and anything on a Unix/Linux system. Kind of like every user in Windows So it would be a command that could not be resisted. You put it before the command like "sudo del file"

Thanks! Apparently I am only geeky enough to understand the bottom three jokes.

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That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

sudo basically means "do as a super user" in Unix/Linux. Super users can do everything and anything on a Unix/Linux system. Kind of like every user in Windows So it would be a command that could not be resisted. You put it before the command like "sudo del file"

Thanks! Apparently I am only geeky enough to understand the bottom three jokes.

I was geeky enough to understand all 4!!!!! Oh wait....that isn't a good thing.

sudo basically means "do as a super user" in Unix/Linux. Super users can do everything and anything on a Unix/Linux system. Kind of like every user in Windows So it would be a command that could not be resisted. You put it before the command like "sudo del file"

Thanks! Apparently I am only geeky enough to understand the bottom three jokes.

i only understood today's 'sudo' reference because of the previous xkcd strip...learned what it meant when it showed up the first time, so i thought it was pretty cool to see Amend reference it today